Inventor
ALLEN ROGER L
US20 patents
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NVIDIA CORP
13 patentsUS6825843B2Nov 30, 2004
Method and apparatus for loop and branch instructions in a programmable graphics pipeline
NVIDIA CORP178 citations97
US7663621B1Feb 16, 2010
Cylindrical wrapping using shader hardware
NVIDIA CORP87 citations96
US7600155B1Oct 6, 2009
Apparatus and method for monitoring and debugging a graphics processing unit
NVIDIA CORP51 citations93
US7711990B1May 4, 2010
Apparatus and method for debugging a graphics processing unit in response to a debug instruction
NVIDIA CORP42 citations92
US7385607B2Jun 10, 2008
Scalable shader architecture
NVIDIA CORP19 citations91
US7809928B1Oct 5, 2010
Generating event signals for performance register control using non-operative instructions
NVIDIA CORP8 citations84
US7877565B1Jan 25, 2011
Constant versioning for multi-threaded processing
NVIDIA CORP11 citations83
US7542042B1Jun 2, 2009
Subpicture overlay using fragment shader
NVIDIA CORP9 citations83
US7439979B1Oct 21, 2008
Shader with cache memory
NVIDIA CORP18 citations82
US7911471B1Mar 22, 2011
Method and apparatus for loop and branch instructions in a programmable graphics pipeline
NVIDIA CORP3 citations61
US7852340B2Dec 14, 2010
Scalable shader architecture
NVIDIA CORP5 citations61
US8379033B2Feb 19, 2013
Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system
NVIDIA CORP0 citations52
US9030480B2May 12, 2015
Triggering performance event capture via pipelined state bundles
NVIDIA CORP0 citations37
ALLEN ROGER L
3 patentsUS8094158B1Jan 10, 2012
Using programmable constant buffers for multi-threaded processing
ALLEN ROGER L21 citations90
US8212824B1Jul 3, 2012
Apparatus and method for serial save and restore of graphics processing unit state information
ALLEN ROGER L10 citations75
US8253748B1Aug 28, 2012
Shader performance registers
ALLEN ROGER L0 citations40